I am not a football fan per se. I enjoy watching matches and have enough of an understanding of the game to appreciate it, but don’t follow a team or refer inexplicably to ‘us’ or ‘we’ when talking about a team that I have no actual connection to.
The World Cup provides some good entertainment – sport is always at it’s best when national pride is part of the motivation.
Watching the Barclays Premier League you’re regularly faced with the pathetic diving and so-called simulation of players like scumbag Luis Suarez. But seeing some of the European and South American players’ antics in the World Cup seriously drove home how little fakery the English game really has in it. These guys are a joke.
It’s cheating really. It’s fake, it’s simulation and it is completely against the spirit in which sport should be played – irrespective of the level of competition. And the acting is shite too – just to really rub it in.
“Hey kids – watch the World Cup. This is how you play the beautiful game!”
Not.
Balls on the line 